Re: [PATCH] cheap lookup of symbol names on oops()

Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-07-25T21:09:14Z

On 2002-07-25T22:59:10,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> said:

> One thing is if you have ksymall ala kdb and you can resolve to
> something where you don't need the system.map to guess what happened,
> but without the ksymall you need the system.map or vmlinux anyways.

I am still not convinced that this isn't the better approach overall; yes, the
full ksymall table takes a few kb in memory, which can be avoided if one has a
full vmlinux / System.map archive (as it would in theory be possible for a
distribution for all shipped kernels), but having the fully decoded Oops - or
at least, as far as possible - would certainly be more useful in the general
case, and for self-compiled kernels.

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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